different between evolve vs distend

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?volv? (“unroll, unfold”), from ?- (“out of”) (short form of ex) + volv? (“roll”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??v?lv/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??v?lv/
• Hyphenation: e?volve

Verb

evolve (third-person singular simple present evolves, present participle evolving, simple past and past participle evolved)

1. To move in regular procession through a system.
   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     The animal soul sooner expands and evolves it self to its full orb and extent than the humane Soul

   • 1840, William Whewell, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences

     The principles which art involves, science alone evolves.

   • 1870, John Shairp, Culture and Religion

     Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.

2. (intransitive) To change; transform.

3. To come into being; develop.
   • 1939, P. G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime

     You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.
4. (biology) Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
   • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, p. 502:

     There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

5. (chemistry) To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).

6. (transitive) To cause something to change or transform.

Related terms

Translations

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lve

Verb

evolve

1. third-person singular present indicative of evolvere

Latin

Etymology

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e??u?ol.u?e/, [e??u????u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?vol.ve/, [??v?lv?]

Verb

?volve

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ?volv?

Portuguese

Verb

evolve

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of evolver
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of evolver

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??st?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

distend (third-person singular simple present distends, present participle distending, simple past and past participle distended)

1. (intransitive) To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell
   • 1975', Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 147]:

     I begin to hate the theater, the feeling wickedly distended by histrionics, all the old gestures, clutchings, tears, and applications.

2. (transitive, reflexive, archaic) To extend; to stretch out; to spread out.
   • 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):

     I begin to hate the theater, the feeling wickedly distended by histrionics, all my old gestures, clutchings, tears, and applications. These impure and frail matters are conteined within the angust concave of the Lunar Orb, above which with uninterrupted Series the things Celestial distend themselves.
3. (transitive) To cause to swell.
4. (biology) To cause gravidity.

Derived terms

• distensible

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “distend”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• destin'd

French

Verb

distend

1. third-person singular present indicative of distendre